ZALTBOMMEL – Two men of 51 and 53 years from Someren Tuesday in Zaltbommel which were at work, died after falling from a telehandler. That is a kind of platform. The bin where they stood in, collapsed for unknown reasons down. A 24-year-old man from Someren survived the accident and was seriously injured taken to hospital. The victims were working for enterprises Wines Construction and Raijmakers from Someren.
It’s the 53-year-old Bart Vink and the 51-year-old Jos Relou, reporting sources within the football club Someren at Omroep Brabant. The third victim, 24-year-old Remco van Bogget, was seriously injured and had surgery Tuesday night, says a family member.
Van der Valk Hotel
The men were work on the back of a building along the A2 which is converted into Van der Valk hotel. According to eyewitnesses, they were working to fix a banner of Wines Building on the facade of the building. They did from the handler.
The Wines spokesman Construction, Harry Beukers, visited the place where the accident happened Tuesday afternoon at a quarter past one. “The sadness is that big. How could such a thing happen in hell ?, we all think. The people were just a lead to the bucket.”
But the whole container where the three men were coming down. According Beukers the bucket is also used to enter off debris. “We do not understand how this could happen.”
Omroep Gelderland spoke with witnesses. They said they saw three men straight fall. From all sides came hit ambulances. “At one point they started CPR. It took twenty minutes. Then two men were covered with cloths and one was carried away on a stretcher. Such a resuscitation that you see normally only in the movies. Everyone is upset,” said one man against reporter Arjan Hoefakker
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Frequently Asked questions
the police can not say how the accident could happen and what was done for work. Also about the state of the injured victim are no details are known yet. The police and labor research.
Mayor Alfred Veltman was told the news Tuesday afternoon and was shocked: “It’s terrible, such accident Our sympathy goes out to family and relatives, and to colleagues and the companies involved..”
Wines Construction has announced in a statement that for colleagues who controlled professional help were present during the accident. “Right now, our attention and sympathy to the families of the victims.”
Modified: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 – 01:00
Author: Mathijs Pennings
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